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A celebration of the UK and Ireland's female poet laureates as part of International Women's Day
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Hannah, Grandmother
for Hannah McCabe
Coldest day yet of November
her voice close in my ear –
tell them priests nothing.
Was I twelve? Thirteen?
Filthy minded.
Keep your sins to yourself.
Don't be giving them a thrill.
Dirty oul feckers.
As close as she came to the birds and the bees
on her knees in front of the Madonna,
Our Lady of the Facts of Life....